Eddie Jones makes a big call on players using social media after Wallabies' shock World Cup loss to...

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2023-09-19 01:08:00  • 4 mins

Wallabies coach Eddie Joneshas refused to order his players off social media amid a torrid blowback after their World Cup loss to Fiji that has put their tournament campaign on the precipice of disaster.

A day after apologising and taking all the blame for the first loss to the island nation innearly 70 years, Jones declared 'these are the weeks you really remember' as his team prepares for a must-win clash against Wales to avoid an early World Cup exit.

The Wallabies have been ridiculed, criticised and even lampooned in the wake of the limp loss, their fifth defeat in six Tests since Jones retook control of the team and vowed to make Australian rugby great again by taking a broom to the squad and injecting new blood.

So far his plans have backfired badly and Jones conceded he was 'still searching for answers' to turn the Wallabies into the team he hoped they could be.

Be he insisted motivation was no problem ahead of the clash with Wales, which Australia must win to be any chance of progressing to the quarter-finals.

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